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- CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
- CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
- CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
- FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- CONFERENCES
- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
- OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
Roberto Gonzales -- Learning to be Illegal: The Unauthorized 1.5 Generation and the Construction of Liminal Illegality
Roberto Gonzales, UW School of Social Work
Learning to be Illegal: The Unauthorized 1.5 Generation and the Construction of
Liminal Illegality
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:30 - 1:00 pm
Parrington Hall Forum
CSDE Seminar Schedule
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CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTLIGHTS
Introducing the CSDE Fellows Program
For more than sixty years, the UW Center for
Studies in Demography and Ecology has sponsored interdisciplinary training in
demography for graduate students at the University of Washington. The Center
does not offer degrees, but coordinates population related courses and other
aspects of graduate student training in demography. CSDE has often also
historically been the source of considerable financial support for graduate
students through RAships, training grants from NICHD, foundations, and its own
resources. In recent years, as interest in demographic studies has grown among
UW graduate students, national sources of financial support, primarily from
foundations has declined. This has increased the competition for the small
number of centrally administered CSDE fellowships. It is not uncommon to have
ten highly qualified graduate student applicants for each open CSDE
fellowships.
Since the funded CSDE fellows represent such a small fraction of the graduate
students who wish to have a CSDE affiliation, we have initiated a new CSDE
Fellows Program. The new program is not really new – it simply formally
recognizes the many highly qualified UW graduate students who routinely attend
CSDE seminars and acquire advanced training in demography through coursework.
Most of these students are supported as research assistants on faculty directed
research projects or as teaching assistants in their home departments.
Application to the CSDE Fellows program is open to any graduate student at the University
of Washington
in a department with an established demography track. The core elements of the
CSDE Fellows program are disciplinary and interdisciplinary coursework in
demography, participation in the weekly seminar series and one-credit courses
offered by CSDE (CSDE 502), and research apprenticeship training with CSDE
faculty affiliates. Most importantly, CSDE Fellows are formally recognized as
valued members of the CSDE intellectual community.
CSDE Fellows include currently enrolled funded CSDE fellows (past and current)
as well those who have applied this year. CSDE is delighted to welcome the
first cohort of these new CSDE Fellows. You can find more information on all of
the current Fellows here.
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CSDE Alumni Newsletter
The first issue of our annual alumni newsletter
has been mailed to over 100 CSDE Alumni -- former UW graduate students who had
a research connection to CSDE. The
newsletter pdf is posted on the homepage of the CSDE website and is available here.
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David Hyllegard on Vacation 3/2-3/20
David Hyllegard will be away on vacation March
2nd-20th. Please contact Audrey Kentor
if you need assistance or have Information Core-related questions during this
time. It would be greatly appreciated if
you would please send announcements for CSDE eNews to csde@u.washington.edu. Please also feel free to contact Anne Zald,
UW Librarian, for reference assistance, literature searches, and the like.
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CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
Krista J. Gile -- Estimation from Network-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling
CSSS Seminar Series
Krista J. Gile, Postdoctoral Prize Reserach Fellow, Nuffeld
College, University
of Oxford
Estimation from Network-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
12:30 - 1:20 pm
Denny 401
More information is here.
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Lalit Dandona -- HIV/AIDS Control in India: Measurement and Evaluation Challenges
IHME Seminar Series
Lalit Dandona, Professor of International Public Health, University of Sydney,
Australia
HIV/AIDS Control in India: Measurement and Evaluation Challenges
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2301 5th Ave, Ste. 600
Seattle, WA
98121
(206) 897-2806
More information is here.
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Mark Collard -- On the Cladistic Analysis of Culture
IPEM (IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling)
Seminar Series
Mark Collard, Laboratory of Human Evolutionary Studies,
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
On the Cladistic Analysis of Culture
Thursday, February 26, 2009
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Denny 401
More information is here.
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Stewart Tolnay -- Strung Up and Riddled with Bullets: Southern Lynch Mobs and their Victims
Registration Requested at www.soc.washington.edu/RSVP using the word
"lynching". Sociology Professor Stewart Tolnay will begin with a very
brief overview of the history of lynching in the South followed by a discussion
of different explanations that have been offered for the phenomenon and the
evidence that supports or contradicts those explanations. He will compare the
characteristics of the lynch victims with the general population to see in what
ways they were similar or different.
Thursday, February 26
7:00 - 8:30 PM
UW Club Lecture Room
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Mike Mulcahy -- Sociology Cinema Event at Northwest Film Forum
Sociology Cinema event at Northwest Film Forum:
Professor Mike Mulcahy introduces They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Mike Mulcahy, UW Department of Sociology visiting assistant professor
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Begins 6:15 pm
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle,
WA 98122
Sociological inquiry meets cinematic art and historical deja-vu this Saturday.
February 28th when the Sociology Student Association, in collaboration with the
Northwest Film Forum, presents "Sociology Cinema: They Shoot Horses Don't
They?" with discussant Dr. Mike
Mulcahy (Sociology, Universityof Washington).
Sociology Cinema pairs films and speakers, with an emphasis on sociological
issues. Organized by UW student members of the Sociology Student Association
(SSA), the event happens quarterly with new films and faculty discussants. SSA
President Sophia Chang speaks of the event, "not only do students enhance
and apply their understanding of the sociological perspective, but also [have a
chance to] to share their passion for Sociology [with faculty and other
students]". The February 28th event
reaches out to the greater Seattle
moviegoing community, bringing to the forefront sociological questions about
the substance of the film and the social environment that helped to shape it.
This month's event is held off-campus, at the Northwest Film Forum, a dynamic
local organization championing independent cinema and film-making.
This film is a part of the yearlong Northwest Film Forum's "69"
series: an exploration of the films of 1969, presenting a diversity of feature
films, documentaries and experimental works that were seen on screens during
that tumultuous year. 1969 was a moment between times. The year was
simultaneously the epitome and the end of an era. With optimism and fear,
triumphs and tragedies, freedoms and violations, love and war, a decade of
diametric struggles was coming to an end. Forty years later, as we close out
the first decade of the 21st Century, 1969 is a reflection of the kinds of
issues, dilemmas, creative sparks, contradictions and open future that we face
today, in our world and our cinema.
More information is here.
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Colleen Heflin -- Material Hardship and Macroeconomic Performance Across Space, Time and Race
WCPC Seminar Series
Colleen Heflin, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Missouri
Material Hardship and Macroeconomic Performance Across Space, Time, and Race
Monday, March 9, 2009
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Parrington Hall Commons 308
More information is here.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) (R25)
Initiative for Maximizing Student Development
(IMSD) (R25)
(PAR-09-104)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): January 25, 2010, 2011, 2012
The goal of the IMSD Program is to increase the number of students from groups
underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences that complete the
Ph.D. degree in these fields at institutions with research intensive
environments. The Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program was
created in response to a legislative mandate of increasing the numbers of
underrepresented (UR)
faculty, investigators and students engaged in biomedical and behavioral
research, and to broaden the opportunities for their participation in
biomedical and behavioral research. To accomplish this goal, the Initiative for
Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program provides institutional grants to
establish research training programs at institutions with research intensive
environments that will increase the preparation and skills of UR students in
the biomedical and behavioral sciences as they academically advance in the
pursuit of the Ph.D. degree in these fields.
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Women's Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research (R01)
Women's Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences
Research (R01)
(PA-09-108)
National Institute of Mental Health
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications from
institutions/organizations that propose to study women’s mental health and
sex/gender differences in mental health.
Examples of relevant research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Elucidation of disparities in prevalence of mental
illness and related disability, and in access to care among women and girls of
different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
* Assessment of the reliability, validity and predictive
value of approaches to conceptualizing and measuring psychopathology in female
populations.
* Identification of demographic variables and social,
cultural, behavioral and environmental factors related to gender differences in
mental disorders (e.g., work and family roles, marriage, gender discrimination,
response to psychosocial stressors, propensity to use substances).
* Elucidation of childhood risk and protective factors
related to the emergence of gender disparities in incidence and course of
mental disorders (particularly mood, anxiety, and eating disorders).
* The roles of hormonal, genetic, and social factors in the
emergence of sex/gender differences in susceptibility to mental disorders,
mood, and cognitive disruption during defined transitional periods including
puberty, pregnancy, the postpartum period, and perimenopause.
There is also an RFP for an R21.
(PA-09-109)
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African American Marriage and Family Stability
African American Marriage and Family Stability
National Center for Marriage Research
Application date: April 6, 2009
The National Center for Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University, in
consultation with the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative at the
Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, seeks to fund at least four proposals ($10,000-$20,000 per
award) to support innovative research that contributes to theoretical,
conceptual, methodological, or empirical developments about African American
marriage and families. Our aim is to support new work on African American
families that can be translated to a broad audience, including policymakers,
practitioners, and educators.
Research often focuses on the challenges facing African American families,
obscuring factors that promote resilience in African American family life.
Close attention to new patterns of family formation and their consequences for
wellbeing is warranted. Innovative data collections are desirable, including
qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. in a social science discipline.
Preference will be given to new and emerging scholars, including untenured
scholars with full-time academic appointments and researchers with less than
five years of experience who are employed outside of academia at organizations
that are authorized to grant human subjects approval.
More information and application instructions are here.
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CONFERENCES
Sexual and Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood
The Center for Family and Demographic Research
and the National Center for Marriage Research invite you to attend a research
conference:
Sexual and Romantic Relationships in
Emerging Adulthood, at Bowling Green State University
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Bowen-Thompson Student Union 201
Speakers include Paul Eastwick, Sharon Sassler, and Catherine Surra.
The conference is free, but pre-registration is required. To pre-register for
the conference, simply reply to cfdr@bgsu.edu by March 20th.
More information is available here.
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Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education & Action
Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education
& Action
18th Annual GHEC Conference &
7th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference
April 3 - 5, 2009
Hosted at:
University of Washington
Husky Union Building (HUB)
4001 Stevens Way NE
Seattle, WA
More information is here.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Department Chair -- George Washington University, Organizational Sciences and Communication
The Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication
invites applications for a Departmental Chair position at the Full Professor
level to begin September 1, 2009. Our department is an interdisciplinary blend
of scholars from a variety of related fields offering the Ph.D. in
Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Master's programs in Organizational
Sciences, and undergraduate programs in Communication and in Organizational
Sciences. The Department seeks a leader and committed scholar with an
interdisciplinary perspective who will work to advance a diverse curriculum and
innovative programs.
Review of applications will begin March 20, 2009 and will continue until the
position is filled.
More information can be found here.
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Associate/Full Professor -- University of Southern California, Institute for Prevention Research
The Institute for Prevention Research (IPR) and the
Department of Preventive Medicine at the University
of Southern California invite
applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the associate or full
professor rank. The Institute includes faculty who conduct research on disease
prevention with particular emphasis on risk behaviors among adolescents
including substance use and obesity. IPR is well known for the conduct of large
school based field trials. It is of great importance in the conduct of these
trials that we address the issue of dissemination and adoption of evidence
based methods that have been shown to improve adolescent and adult health
behaviors. These dissemination and adoption strategies are topics of
investigation in terms of the best practices for training, monitoring,
supporting, and maintaining such programs. IPR seeks a senior faculty member
with a research focus on the dissemination of, or policies surrounding the adoption
of, evidence based prevention programs.
Review of applicants will begin immediately and continue until the candidate is
selected.
More information can be found here.
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Assistant or Associate Professor -- University of California at Berkeley, Economics
Economics: University of California,
Berkeley (CA). The Department of Economics is seeking applicants for one or
more openings at the assistant and associate professor levels at 100% time for
the academic year 2009-2010. Applicants in the area of macroeconomics will be
considered. Qualifications include: a Ph.D. in Economics or a related
discipline, at or near completion; the potential for significant research
accomplishment and for distinguished teaching at both the undergraduate and
graduate levels. The application deadline is March 22, 2009.
More information is here.
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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Postdoctoral Fellowship -- Yale University, Center for Research Inequalities and the Life Course
The Center for Research on Inequalities and the
Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University seeks
applications for a postdoctoral fellowship for one or more years, to start in Fall 2009. Candidates should be interested in empirical research on the processes that generate inequalities of social class, race/ethnicity, generation, and gender across the life course and have experience on working with longitudinal data. CIQLE is one of three research centers in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. The
six faculty fellows of the Center have extensive experience in research on various topics on inequality and the life course, including changes and cross-national variation in the life course, social mobility, education, work and occupational careers, family dynamics and family divisions of labor, health inequality, and
gender inequalities. CIQLE currently has four postdoctoral fellows, ten junior fellows, two visiting fellows, and seven associate fellows at Yale and beyond. CIQLE hosts a weekly seminar, thematic conferences, a working paper series, and the German Life History Study. Applicants should expect to use 50% of their time for research collaboration with CIQLE faculty and/or making use of the CIQLE data archive. Current stipends are
approximately $38,500 per year plus benefits. Applicants should have completed their Ph.D. by the beginning of the appointment but not earlier than 2006.
Please send a cover letter, curriculum vita, and a 2-5 page description of your postdoctoral research plans electronically to chelsea.rhodes@yale.edu(preferred) or by mail to Karl Ulrich Mayer, Department of Sociology, Yale University,
P.O. Box 208265, New
Haven, CT 06520-8265,
and arrange for two confidential letters of reference to be sent to the same address. The deadline
for applications is April 3, 2009.
For more information, see http://www.yale.edu/ciqle/ or contact Juho Harkonen.
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Brown University -- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Environmental Change Initiative
Brown University's
Environmental Change Initiative announces the availability of two distinguished postdoctoral positions in interdisciplinary environmental science. Established in 2004, the Environmental Change Initiative (ECI) catalyzes collaborative research projects among 13 affiliated academic units and over 40 individual researchers. Particular strengths include coastal and marine ecology, biogeochemistry, Earth systems history, population studies, remote sensing and spatial analysis, evolutionary genetics, archaeology, ecosystem-based management, biogeography, and conservation medicine. Brown University maintains a
cooperative research program with the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, including the Ecosystems
Center
and the Josephine Bay Paul Center in
Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution. A joint appointment between Brown's Environmental Change Initiative and Brown's Population Studies and Training Center
(http://www.pstc.brown.edu/index.htm) is also possible. The Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) at Brown
University, formally established in 1965, is an internationally respected demography research and training center offering an outstanding interdisciplinary graduate training program. Research interests include social demography, economic demography, anthropological demography, and population health.
To apply, please send a letter describing research interests, a current CV, a two-page research project proposal, including names of Brown/MBL mentors, and 3 letters of reference to: Bonnie Horta, Administrative Manager, Environmental Change Initiate, Box 1951,
Brown University, Providence,
RI 02912.
For further inquiries, please contact Johanna Schmitt, Director of the Environmental Change Initiative or Marty Downs, Assistant Director. Applications will be reviewed starting February 15, 2009 and accepted until the position is filled.
More information is here.
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Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Data to Study Marriage and Family
Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Data to
Study Marriage and Family
Wednesday, April 29, 6:00-8:00pm
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center,
Brule B, Level 5
The Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) will sponsor a free 2-hour workshop on the Fragile Families dataset at the PAA's 2009 Annual Meeting in Detroit,
Michigan.
The workshop will provide an overview of the research design and key components
of the data and then provide insights into using the data for studying union
status and household structure, union history, relationship quality, and
fertility.
The target audience is young scholars from various social science disciplines, including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, and other researchers who are interested in using the Fragile Families data for the analysis of marriage and family.
Please email cprc@columbia.edu if planning to attend. Space is limited.
Additional information about the study can be found here.
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2009 Summer Workshops on Advanced Spatial Analysis
2009 Summer Workshops on Advanced Spatial
Analysis
Sponsored by the Population Research Institute Center for Spatially Integrated
Social Science
June 21 - 26, 2009 and July 12 - 17, 2009
Application Deadline: March 31, 2009
This is a preliminary announcement regarding the 2009 Summer Workshops
on Advanced Spatial Analysis. We are offering two workshops this
summer:
Multi-level Modeling
Penn State
June 21-26, 2009
This five-day workshop, led by Kelvyn Jones (University of
Bristol,
U.K.) and S.V. (Subu)
Subramanian (Harvard
University) is designed
to
give participants experience in the concepts and applications of
multilevel statistical modeling, particularly in a spatial and
demographic context.
Spatial Regression Modeling
UC Santa Barbara
July 12-17, 2009
The goal of this five-day workshop, led by Paul R. Voss (University of
North Carolina
at Chapel Hill)
and Katherine Curtis (University of
Wisconsin-Madison) is to provide an overview of applied spatial
regression analysis (spatial econometrics). This course will introduce
the broader field of spatial data analysis and the range of issues that
generally must be dealt with when analyzing georeferenced data.
Further details on each workshop can be found at the project website.
The application form for these workshops is available here.
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Time Use Workshop
Time Use Workshop
Sponsored by the University
of Maryland
June 22 - 24, 2009
Application Deadline: February 27, 2009
Applications are solicited for participation in a three-day workshop to
introduce researchers to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the
ATUS Data Extract Builder (ATUS-X). The ATUS is a general-purpose time
use survey sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The
survey has been conducted annually since 2003. The ATUS-X is a new tool
designed to make it easy for researchers to create time use variables
and extract customized ATUS data files that are ready for analysis. The
ATUS-X Workshop will be held on the University of Maryland
campus June
22-24, 2009. The workshop is designed primarily for researchers who are
new to the analysis of time use data. Workshop participants also will
have the opportunity to attend the American Time Use Research Conference
that will take place immediately following the workshop, on June 25-26,
2009.
More information and the application form are here.
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OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Data Available: India Human Development Survey, 2005
Freely downloadable public use data files are now available for the India Human Development Survey 2005 (IHDS), a nationally representative, multi-topic survey of 41,554 households in 1503 villages and 971 urban neighborhoods across India. Two one-hour interviews in each household covered health, education, employment, economic status, marriage, fertility, gender relations, and social capital. Children aged 8-11 completed short reading, writing and arithmetic tests. Additional village, school, and medical facility data will be available later.
Data files and documentation can be downloaded for free from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR):
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/22626.xml
While registration is required, the data are available at no cost.
For further information see the IHDS web pages: http://www.ihds.umd.edu
and http://www.ncaer.org
IHDS was jointly organized by researchers from the University of Maryland
and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. It was funded by the U.S. National Institutes
of Health.
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Herb Hethcote -- Spring 2009 UW Course Offering, Mathematical Epidemiology
Applied Mathematics 504, Global Health 590
Tuesdays and Thursdays
2:30 - 3:50 pm
Guggenheim Hall 218
This year, Amath 504 is a special course in Mathematical Epidemiology taught by Herb Hethcote, who has over 70 publications (available at http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~hethcote/) in the area of infectious disease modeling during the last 39 years. Herb Hethcote is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Iowa
and now lives in the Seattle
area. This course will introduce differential equation modeling of infectious disease transmission and interventions. There will be a special emphasis on the evaluation and comparison of vaccination programs. Applications will be presented for specific diseases such as measles, rubella, smallpox, polio, varicella (chickenpox), pertussis, influenza, rabies, and gonorrhea.
This course is open to PhD and Master’s students with a wide variety of backgrounds, including Applied Mathematics, Global Health, Biostatistics, Statistics, Epidemiology, Biology, and others. Material will be presented in a manner that is accessible to all of these students. Grading this quarter is on a CR/NC basis. Grades will be based on class participation and on a written project, appropriate to a student’s background and interests.
The topics to be covered and other details are available here.
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